Limited-Edition Photograph by Sophie T. Lvoff

"I made this series because I was interested in trees being lit up at night. I would drive around the Northeast and search for the brightest lights and photograph the surrounding foliage. Many times, the plants and trees were the only things lit by these very powerful and carefully placed light sources. I thought it was a strange use of energy, and wondered if it kept the trees awake, while at the same time exposing a latent fear of the dark."

—Sophie T. Lvoff

Aperture is pleased to offer our collecting audience Sophie T. Lvoff's Nothing is Stirring, as featured in reGeneration 2: Tomorrow's Photographers Today, the second book in the esteemed series shining a spotlight on the next generation's rising stars.

Inspired by the many artists from the original 2005 reGeneration publication who went on to develop international careers, Aperture has prepared limited editions by several of the 2010 volume's participating artists, some of whose work will be available for purchase for the very first time. The sale of these prints will help support these emerging artists—and give collectors an opportunity to acquire their work early in their careers.

"In the Nothing is Stirring series, she focuses her camera on trees, which she observes at night under artificial light. Through her work without colour, Lvoff manages to give an impression of suspended time. Doesn't this birch forest evoke the Russian light described by Leo Tolstoy, who is in fact her ancestor?"

—Nathalie Hershdorfer

Sophie T. Lvoff (born in New York, 1986) graduated from Tisch School of Arts in 2008. She has participated in exhibitions in both the U.S. and in Germany. Her work is held in the collections of the Musée d'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland; Michaelis School of Fine Arts, Cape Town, South Aftrica; and the Leo Tolstoy Museum, Tula, Russia.

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